Chapter 911: Sunset
"If the alchemy battleship hits from underwater, it won't be able to run away this time!" Akon sighed.
As he spoke, the strange ironclad battleship suddenly surfaced, half as fast as it was, reaching a speed of 12 knots. The gun holes on both sides were also opened, and a heavy cannon was pushed out, and the thick muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the Spanish battleship, 'Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ', the guns on the side of the board fired one after another!
One of the heavy shells hit the bulkhead of the Spanish battleship, making a big hole! The ironclad battleship pulled a small arc on the surface of the sea, and the hull remained motionless, showing its excellent and smooth steering force! Even if it surfaced, the ironclad battleship was a little shorter than the ordinary light Galen warship, so that the hit surface of the cannon fire was small, and its gun muzzle could shoot directly under the side of the opponent's ship, which had a lot of advantages in the artillery battle.
In Akon's eyes, the only fly in the ointment is that the guns of this ironclad battleship still use short-range heavy guns, not long-range Kofelin, which is not suitable for new naval warfare......
At that moment, a gray carrier pigeon flew from the Spanish warship, and as soon as it spread its wings, it flew towards the southern seas. The pigeons were small, and the pirates, who were bombarding the Spanish ships with red eyes, did not pay attention.
Akon noticed, though, as the grey pigeon flew past him.
Akon looked at the pigeon, gestured like a gunner, and smiled: "If I kill you, history will be rewritten...... Hehe, lucky for you, let me see how awesome the Spanish Caribbean fleet is......"
The artillery battle between the two warbands on the sea was in full swing, and the shelling of this ancient warship was completely blind by the experience of the gunners. In the Anglo-Spanish Sea Battle, hundreds of galleons were in a scuffle, and shells were used as bullets, but few were actually sunk by shelling, and the British side did not lose a single ship. The main factor in this is that the accuracy of long-range shelling is not high. Therefore, broadside warfare and close-range shelling are the mainstream of naval warfare in this era. This is also the reason why most of the Spanish warships and other countries, as well as most of the pirate ships, were equipped with close-range heavy shipwreck cannons. And long-range guns at long distances are not taken seriously.
At this time, more than a dozen pirate ships and the Spanish fleet were in a fierce battle, and the same was true, the two sides shelled each other for more than two hours, and only two pirate ships were damaged masts. This is still Stoker's gunner, Red Cloth Strip Jack did it. The two large ships of the Spanish fleet were very strong in attack, and if they approached, they would inevitably be destroyed by heavy cannons at close range. Moreover, there were many Spanish soldiers on these two ships, and they were well-armed, and the pirates did not dare to engage in broadside battles.
The pirates' tactic was to separate and defeat the escort ships with superior firepower, and then strangled the soldiers and crews of the four transport ships in a broadside battle. Thus, the six main ships of the pirates bit two large Spanish ships. Although the Spanish warships were brave, after all, two fists were difficult to defeat four hands, and the heroes could not stand the crowd, and some were tired of running.
And because the transports could not get out of the battlefield, they could not get out either. One of the ships was hooked to the side of Victor's galleon, and could not be freed, and the two sides launched a close shelling. Another large pirate ship also flanked from the flanks, and the guns on the three ships bombarded each other, destroying the ship and flying wood chips!
Boom guns, flintlock muskets, and even archers on deck opened fire on the enemy on opposing ships. At this time, the battle between the warships is really the most tragic time. Personnel on both sides were crammed into cramped cabins or on decks, unable to disperse and escape. Under the bombardment of iron and fire at close range, human flesh and blood are so fragile. For a while, the miserable howls came and went, like hell on earth!
The light and fast warships of Stoke and Sarica were entangled in other pirate ships and could not be rescued, only to watch as the Spanish battleship, which was caught in the middle, was beaten to the ground by cannon fire and its mast collapsed, and all three decks were shattered! However, the two Karak galleons of the 'Victor' pirate regiment were also bombarded into a sieve by dozens of Spanish cannons, and one of them could no longer support it, and sank into the sea with a 'squeak'! Countless pirate sailors and Spanish officers and soldiers jumped into the water to escape.
Another pirate ship approached, and with more than a dozen cannons at close range, the stubborn Spanish battleship was sunk. Another Karak pirate ship was also badly damaged and staggered out of the battlefield.
Two to three! At present, there are two Spanish escort warships left, one large and one small. Akon's two light three-masted warships played soy sauce on the perimeter. If it weren't for the fact that Akon knew that the Spanish warship had released carrier pigeons, he would have ordered Stoke and Sarica to flee at this time.
The remaining two Spanish ships were also isolated by the ships of the 'Carthaginian Sunset' pirate regiment, and the other pirate ships had already begun to surround the large transports, ready to take on the ship!
Just as six pirate ships were sandwiching the Spanish transport ship in twos and twos, hundreds of iron hooks and dozens of portholes thrown from the deck hooked the four large Spanish transport ships of Karak. In the sky, Akon found that on the sea level in the distance, more than a dozen fleets under the Spanish flag rushed towards this side at full speed!
"It's time for the show!" Akon clapped his hands in the air and informed Katarina of what he had seen. The latter and Captain Hook were both taken aback, and secretly glad that they did not take advantage of the fire.
Enriquis, the commander of the Spanish Caribbean Fleet, was very confident, and this time he managed to persuade King Philip II to use a royal convoy as bait to attract the largest pirate regiments in the Caribbean. He repeatedly assured that this time Jihua would not only be able to solve the problem of raiding in the Caribbean once and for all, but also ensure the safety of the transport ship.
For this reason, he was afraid that the firepower of his fleet would not be enough, so he specially contacted a Spanish ocean-going treasure fleet that had been handed over to him to join the extermination of the Caribbean pirates. And this fleet of ships that sent gold to the ocean was composed of four Spanish galleons, including two royal four-masted large escort warships, with fierce firepower and very strong combat effectiveness!
Coupled with his own ten 500-ton three-masted armed sailing ships, even if the opponent has the same number of warships as himself, his combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the elite regular fleet at all! Crushing your opponent is a sure thing. Now the escort warship of the ocean-going treasure ship has also received the report and is rushing from the nearby waters! This time, we will be able to catch all the pirates who dare to plunder the Spanish fleet!
Akon found that to the east of the warring sea, another fleet under the banner of the Spanish royal family was violently blocked from the sea to the west. It seems that the Spanish fleet has ambushed two strange forces to block the 'Carthaginian Sunset' pirate group and the 'Victor' pirate group in this bay. He immediately gave an account to Caterina's fleet, disguised himself as a merchant ship, and hurried out of the area to avoid being accidentally injured by the Spanish fleet, while he continued to monitor from the air.
When the pirates boarded the Spanish transport ship and fought, more than a dozen Spanish warships surrounded them from both directions, and they were all terrified! The Spanish warships saw that the pirates had already engaged their convoys, and they all pounced with red eyes. For a while, the cannon roared in the sea here, and the pirate ship, which could not escape after receiving the broadside, was surrounded by Enrikis's armed sailing ship in the middle, and the artillery bombarded fiercely! Even the flagship of the Carthaginian Sunset pirate regiment, the Sunset, was surrounded and annihilated by several Spanish warships.
Even an ironclad ship with eerie power is excellent in terms of defense, agility and speed. It could also be confronted by several Spanish warships with fierce firepower. After being surrounded, the pirate flagship rushed left and right, trying to escape. The soldiers on the deck of the Spanish warship threw out the iron hooks one after another, wanting to catch the ironclad battleship, but because the trapezoidal deck cabin of the pirate ship had no hooks, this guy forced a bloody way out and killed it.
However, even with the ironclad body, this strange ironclad warship was bombarded by the heavy cannons of the Spanish warship at close range. The trapezoidal deck cabin, covered with iron armor on the water, was riddled with holes, and only two or three of the twenty gun emplacements could barely fire back. Seeing that something was wrong, the Sunset returned fire while looking for an opportunity to break away from the warband and flee eastward against the wind! Several relatively fast Spanish ships followed the pursuit......
On the other side, the four Spanish transports, rescued by their own warships, all repelled the pirates who boarded, cut the hook ropes on the gangside, lifted off the portholes, and under the escort of two light and fast warships of Akon, they broke away from the battle circle and sailed westward downwind. This battle also caused heavy casualties among the soldiers and sailors on these transport ships, and they could only barely control the galleon......
Enrikis was undoubtedly successful this time, and the two major pirate groups were besieged in Baraona Bay on the island of Haiti! Most of the pirate ships were sunk or captured, but only two relatively fast three-masted galleons, barely breaking out of the encirclement, relying on their familiarity with the terrain, burrowed into the narrow channel full of reefs, shook off their pursuers, and escaped the sea.
However, when Enricis happily escorted the pirate ship and hundreds of pirates on the way back to Port-au-Prince, the four Spanish transports were not found along the way. What's even more terrifying is that in the treasure transport fleet that he called to help, the two galleons transporting gold have also disappeared! The two treasure ships carrying gold were left behind when their escort ships went to exterminate the pirates, and they were supposed to join the transport ships carrying hardware goods......
Where did they go? Aren't there two light escort ships? Could it be that he met other pirate groups behind the Yellow Sparrow and took advantage of the chaos to pick up a big advantage? The muscles in the corners of Enrikis's eyes couldn't help beating, and he had a premonition that these six transport ships might not come back. This makes him how to face his friends and how to face the questions of the royal family!